{"id":555,"date":"2008-04-29T08:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T13:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-enforcement\/fbi-wants-expanded-monitoring-of-illegal-web-activity\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:50:15","slug":"fbi-wants-expanded-monitoring-of-illegal-web-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-enforcement\/fbi-wants-expanded-monitoring-of-illegal-web-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Wants Expanded Monitoring Of &#8216;Illegal&#8217; Web Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday the FBI made a public request for new laws that would give federal police increased powers to monitor &#8220;illegal activity&#8221; on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The request from FBI Director Robert Mueller came during a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing. It seems to go beyond the current plan to monitor traffic on federal-government networks.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller suggested that the FBI should have widespread oversight to monitor and conduct surveillance of private-sector networks too.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller said the surveillance should include all Internet traffic, including .mil, .gov and .com website domains.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether &#8220;illegal activity&#8221; would be limited to dealing with internet crimes like denial-of-service attacks, spam, phishing and botnets, or would also include the monitoring of other illegal activities, like online gambling, the distribution of pornographic images or selling prescription drugs without a license.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9926899-7.html\">News.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday the FBI made a public request for new laws that would give federal police increased powers to monitor &#8220;illegal activity&#8221; on the internet. The request from FBI Director Robert Mueller came during a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing. It seems to go beyond the current plan to monitor traffic on federal-government networks. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-enforcement\/fbi-wants-expanded-monitoring-of-illegal-web-activity\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from FBI Wants Expanded Monitoring Of &#8216;Illegal&#8217; Web Activity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}